You know what is missing in your game? The ability to warp.
Indeed, wherever I want to go, I have to walk aaaaaaaaall the way there and avoid all monsters on the way, even if I am at the other corner of the island!
I wish the hermit gave me a warp stone at the beginning of the adventure and when I reach an important location like the 4 main towns, there would be a warp mark in the center of the town, like the ones in the dungeons, then I would need to walk on each warp mark one time to register their coordinates into my stone then I could freely warp to all warp marks that I registered into my stone instead of having to walk and avoid monsters from a corner of the island to the other corner, that grows really tedious to have to walk and avoid monsters all of the time, I would enjoy the game more if I could warp from a town to another, can you do it?